Anti-AI fonts considered harmful

Andrew Yaros argues these misshapen typefaces are inaccessible to screen readers and OCR while real AI defeats them anyway.

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Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something to actually use in production.

"Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful," writes Andrew Yaros, not least because they are inaccessible. They are hard to read…